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Robert L. Taylor
Robert L. Taylor is an American civil engineer at UC Berkeley known for the finite element method; he co-authored its standard three-volume reference book with O.C. Zienkiewicz.
Robert L. Whetten
Robert L. Whetten is a chemical physicist and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for early-1990s fullerene chemistry and ligand-protected gold and silver nanoclusters.
Robert L. Wiegel
Robert Louis Wiegel (1922–2016) was an American coastal engineer and professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley who helped establish coastal engineering as a recognized discipline.
Robert L. Z. Hoye
Robert L. Z. Hoye is a New Zealand-born materials chemist and professor at the University of Oxford known for bismuth oxyiodide solar cells, X-ray detectors, and indoor photovoltaics.
Robert Loewy
Robert Loewy (1926–2025) was an American aerospace engineer who created Loewy's theory of helicopter rotor aerodynamics, led the US Air Force as chief scientist, and won the 2006 Guggenheim Medal.
Robert M. Drake Jr.
Robert M. Drake Jr. (Robert Mortimer Drake, Jr.) was an American mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974; he died in 2020.
Robert M. Gray
Robert M. Gray is an American information theorist and electrical engineer known for quantization theory, who spent 1969 to 2013 on the Stanford faculty and won the 2008 Shannon Award.
Robert M. Koerner
Robert M. Koerner (1933–2019) was an American geotechnical engineer, a professor at Drexel University, and founder of the Geosynthetic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Robert M. Nerem
Robert M. Nerem (1937–2020) was an American bioengineer who pioneered the study of how blood-flow forces regulate vessel cells and of tissue engineering at Georgia Tech.
Robert Malpas
Sir Robert Malpas (1927–2023) was a British engineer and industrialist who rose to ICI's main board, served as a managing director of BP, chaired Cookson Group, and co-chaired Eurotunnel.
Robert Mehrabian
Robert Mehrabian is an Armenian-American materials scientist and executive who led Carnegie Mellon University from 1990 to 1997 and spent over two decades as Teledyne Technologies' chairman and CEO.
Robert Metcalfe
Robert Metcalfe, also known as Bob Metcalfe, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973, founded 3Com, and won the 2022 Turing Award.
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce, known as Bob Noyce and nicknamed the Mayor of Silicon Valley, was an American engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
Robert O. Ambrose
Robert O. Ambrose is an American roboticist and Texas A&M professor who led NASA's Robonaut humanoid robot program at Johnson Space Center before joining Texas A&M in 2021.
Robert R. Gilruth
Robert R. Gilruth was an American aeronautical engineer who set the flying-qualities standards for aircraft acceptance, then directed NASA's human spaceflight program, including the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Robert Ritchie (materials scientist)
Robert O. Ritchie is a materials scientist and H.T. & Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on fracture and fatigue of materials.
Robert S. Chau
Robert S. Chau is a semiconductor engineer who led Intel's transistor research behind strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and Tri-Gate FinFET technologies, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Robert S. Elliott
Robert S. Elliott (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer and UCLA educator known for slot array antenna design, electromagnetic theory, and the textbook Antenna Theory and Design.
Robert S. Langer
Robert S. Langer (born 1948) is an American chemical engineer at MIT whose biomaterials work founded modern controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering, and who co-founded Moderna.
Robert S. Schechter
Robert S. Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent his 41-year career at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.
Robert Samuel Schechter
Robert Samuel Schechter (1929–2014) was an American chemical and petroleum engineer who spent 41 years at the University of Texas at Austin and co-developed the spinning drop tensiometer.
Robert Smilowitz
Robert Smilowitz is an American structural engineer specializing in protective design and blast engineering, a Senior Principal at Thornton Tomasetti elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Robert Thomas Jones (aerodynamicist)
Robert Thomas Jones (1910–1999) was an American aerodynamicist who, working at NACA's Langley laboratory, independently discovered the swept-back wing theory and later proposed the oblique wing.
Robert V. Thomann
Robert V. Thomann (1934–2026) was an American environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Manhattan College, known for modeling PCB bioaccumulation in the Lake Michigan food chain.
Robert W. Adams
Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Robert W. Balluffi
Robert W. Balluffi (1924–2022) was an American materials scientist and MIT professor whose experiments proved lattice vacancies exist, clarified grain-boundary structure, and co-authored the textbook Kinetics of Materials.
Robert W. Bower
Robert W. Bower (1936–2024) was an American electrical engineer who invented the self-aligned gate MOSFET, patented in 1969 at Hughes Research Laboratory, and later taught at UC Davis.
Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen (1945–2024) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered low-power CMOS design and co-founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Robert W. Cahn
Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007) was a German-born British metallurgist and materials scientist who proved dislocations exist in crystals, named polygonization, and founded leading journals in the field.
Robert W. Cairns
Robert W. Cairns (1909–1985) was an American industrial chemist who led military rocket propellant research at Hercules Incorporated and served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1968.